…a morning full of educational sessions. In addition, the National Environmental Stewardship Award winner will be named, and some of the industry’s most cutting-edge individuals will be recognized at the…
Groups Respond to New US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
…science-based trading standards, timely review of products produced through biotechnology and gene editing and new provisions on geographic indications. “We are grateful for the progress with Mexico and Canada, and…
Farm Groups Keep Pressure On to Formalize Meat Definition
…the NFU to get the federal agency to clarify the difference between products that come from food animals from those that come from a lab. Earlier this year, the NFU…
California Sets the Bar for Specialty Crop Block Grant Program
…such as plant health and pest management, specialty crop access and nutrition education, equipping current and next generation specialty crop farmers, environmental stewardship and conservation, and food safety. Fixed amount…
AFBF: Environmental Litigation Reform Needed
…fairness, and cost. Yates also said citizen-suit provisions in many environmental laws allow for fee shifting, and those fees come out of an unlimited judgment fund pool, instead of agency…
NMPF Mulhern on FDA Request for Comments on Dairy Food Labeling
…dairy products. NMPF will provide additional perspective explaining why the agency must enforce its own labeling regulations and limit the use of standardized dairy terms to products that come from…
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on Modernizing Standards of Identity and the use of Dairy Names for Plant-Based Substitutes
…is a dairy product in disguise. Today’s action is part of the agency’s overall efforts to reduce chronic disease and its impact on public health. We have a unique opportunity…
Recognizing the Size and Scope of the Forage Industry
…economic activity they generate, nor the environmental benefits the crops can provide. That has resulted in less attention and research support compared to other higher profile crops such as almonds…
Water Works: Diverse Support of Proposition 3 Water Bond
…protection. Habitat protection efforts would receive $940 million in funding. There is a wide range of supporters of the proposition including the Nature Conservancy, the California Watershed Network, along with…
Farm Bureau Calls for Evaluation of Endangered Species Protection
…are not about the goal of species protection, but the best way to achieve that goal. We are not here to question the Act’s fundamental goal of striving to conserve…
Secretary Perdue Rings the Closing Bell at NYSE
…and Senior VP, Gov. Relations Food Marketing Institute Dana O’Brien Executive Vice President Biotechnology Innovation Organization William Davis Executive Vice President, Farm Credit Banking CoBank Jeff Huckaby President Grimmway Farms,…
American Farm Bureau Asks Federal Court to Halt WOTUS Rule Nationwide
…down an Environmental Protection Agency rule that had delayed application of the WOTUS rule nationwide pending the agency’s ongoing reconsideration of the rule. In addition to the court in Georgia,…
Perdue Defends USDA Reorganization Plan that Moves Offices Out of DC
…“We are committed to retaining the necessary staff from each agency in the D.C. area to continue to fulfill these important roles.” Source: National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Perdue Comments on DOJ Filing in 9th Circuit Chlorpyrifos Ruling
…asked for a panel rehearing and a rehearing en banc in a case in which the court directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban chlorpyrifos, a common and useful…
